MySQL Installation (2.6)

Configuring Sakai to use MySQL is an excellent option both for local development and production purposes.

You will not need to create Sakai database objects (tables, indices, etc) when setting up your database. Sakai generates its own database schema automatically during the Tomcat setup process via the autoDDL setting in sakai.properties.

First, confirm whether or not MySQL is installed on your system by checking the version from the command line:

mysql --version

mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for apple-darwin8.11.1 (i686) using readline 5.0

If MySQL is not installed download MySQL 5.0 binaries or source from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/. Linux users should install MySQL using a package or binaries if possible. Choose the standard configuration. Windows users should consider installing MySQL as a service. Remember to include MySQL's /bin directory in your PATH statement.

Assign a password for the root account:

mysql -u root -pmysqlpassword

Create a Sakai database and user/password:

mysql -u root -p
Enter password: ******
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.

Your MySQL connection id is 51 to server version: 4.1.5-gamma-nt

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> create database sakai default character set utf8;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> grant all on sakai.* to sakaiuser@'localhost' identified by 'sakaipassword';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec

mysql> grant all on sakai.* to sakaiuser@'127.0.0.1' identified by 'sakaipassword';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit